Josh McLaughlin, NBCT

Josh McLaughlin currently serves as an Instructional Lead Teacher at Barrett Elementary School in Arlington, Virginia where he works to design teacher driven professional learning experiences that protect and promote autonomy, mastery and purpose. He is a National Board Certified Teacher, a Virginia Lottery Super Teacher Award winner, the co-initiator of the #APSCHATS Twitter chat and Teaching Channel Teams Administrator for Arlington Public Schools.

“I make the point that you need firstly a diagnosis, an analysis of what the problem is. You need a vision of what a better alternative would look like. And then you need a plan to get there—to go from this to that.” -Sir Ken Robinson In seventh grade, my English teacher, Mrs. Kiesner, asked us to research a Greek god or goddess as part of a quarter-long study of Greek mythology and to prepare a short oral report to share with the class. I chose Atlas, the Titan god of endurance and astronomy, who, as the story goes, had…